D. Ruffler, S. Fruhauf, S. Wittich, M. Starogardski
{"title":"InfoRadio on demand, WebTV and digiTaz-telecommerce case studies","authors":"D. Ruffler, S. Fruhauf, S. Wittich, M. Starogardski","doi":"10.1109/CN.1996.534645","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CN.1996.534645","url":null,"abstract":"This paper focuses on hybrid systems for pay-per-view services over the Internet using standard browsing tools. Considerations on how old media can translate into new media are given. In our workgroup we focus on integration of multimedia teleservices (MMTS) in World Wide Web (WWW), telecommerce applications and integration of classical media in WWW. We design prototypes of converters, multimedia services and distribution schemes. These are offered to Internet-aware content providers.","PeriodicalId":217137,"journal":{"name":"3rd International Workshop on Community Networking 1996. Proceedings","volume":"313 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116257594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The user interface to the Infolan university library","authors":"A. Abdullah, A. S. Ismail","doi":"10.1109/CN.1996.534642","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CN.1996.534642","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the general problems and difficulties in using the Infolan university library. A prototype has been developed to help users interact with the system. The prototype adopts a graphical user interface style and incorporates user interface design principles to ensures that the interface is easy to use. The paper also discusses the user interface and implementation of the prototype.","PeriodicalId":217137,"journal":{"name":"3rd International Workshop on Community Networking 1996. Proceedings","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115048767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"EUROMED-visualisation suites for medical imaging","authors":"A. Marsh, C. Michael, T. Maniatis, K. Nikita","doi":"10.1109/CN.1996.534648","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CN.1996.534648","url":null,"abstract":"EUROMED is an European Commission funded three year project, which began with phase I in January 1996. The overall aim of EUROMED is to collaboratively exploit, combine and support HPCN activities to enhance and standardise visualisation techniques to be used in telemedicine applications. Firstly, EUROMED will create a hierarchical telemedicine network throughout Europe and ex-Soviet Union countries (of Armenia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan and Russia) linking isolated medical sites with specialised clinics and HPCN centres. Secondly, EUROMED will develop a hierarchical telemedical visualisation suite of packages incorporating, superimposing and enhancing presently used image modalities such as CT, MRT, angiography, PET and SPECT and newer techniques such as ultrasound diffraction tomography.","PeriodicalId":217137,"journal":{"name":"3rd International Workshop on Community Networking 1996. Proceedings","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132136169","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Regional PC community/group communication network service system driving FTTH forward","authors":"H. Tsuji, N. Ohta, K. Suto, M. Morisaki","doi":"10.1109/CN.1996.534633","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CN.1996.534633","url":null,"abstract":"A new network service, designed to enrich the life styles of the subscribers by helping in their daily activities in a regional community or in groups, using PCs (personal computers) is discussed. To provide the service, a new network function and cost effective hardware and software are described. A feasibility experiment is mentioned where the main customers are housewives and children in a clustered distribution regional area supported by a fibre to the home (FTTH) system.","PeriodicalId":217137,"journal":{"name":"3rd International Workshop on Community Networking 1996. Proceedings","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131241322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ATM SuperPON capacity dimensioning","authors":"E. Jaunart, P. Crahay","doi":"10.1109/CN.1996.534643","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CN.1996.534643","url":null,"abstract":"One of the most promising architecture for the future integrated services network is probably the APON (ATM over PON) system. More than offering the advantages of PON it allows for a bandwidth on demand provisioning to the customer by using VPI/VCI switching. Standard APON products are now on the market and used in trials. By the way the splitting ratio of such architectures is often limited to 1:32. Larger splitting ratio could be interesting in order to share equipment cost by addressing more customers. This is the target of ACTS050 PLANET (Photonic Local Access Network) project. The APON system would address up to 2048 ONUs, the whole set of ONUs delivering a total STM-16 downstream capacity while a 2 STM-1 capacity would be available for the upstream. A feeder section up to 90 km and a distribution part up to 10 km are considered. Due to the long distance and the high splitting ratio optical amplifiers will be used in both directions.","PeriodicalId":217137,"journal":{"name":"3rd International Workshop on Community Networking 1996. Proceedings","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129241261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Charlton, C. Gittings, P. Leng, J. Little, I. Neilson
{"title":"CONNECT: A case study in promoting the advantages of the Internet to SMEs","authors":"C. Charlton, C. Gittings, P. Leng, J. Little, I. Neilson","doi":"10.1109/CN.1996.534655","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CN.1996.534655","url":null,"abstract":"The potential of the Internet to provide a means through which economically deprived and geographically isolated sectors of the community may be revitalised has received much attention. This paper details the strategy employed by CONNECT, the Internet Centre for Merseyside Businesses, Department of Computer Science, Liverpool University to help establish Merseyside as a centre of electronic commerce despite its status as one of the most socially deprived regions of Europe.","PeriodicalId":217137,"journal":{"name":"3rd International Workshop on Community Networking 1996. Proceedings","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122902727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Architecture of a knowledge processing system","authors":"V. B. Lawrence, S. Ahamed","doi":"10.1109/CN.1996.534636","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CN.1996.534636","url":null,"abstract":"We start with three basic notions: that knowledge is based on concepts; that events enhance or refute such concepts; and that no concept or its modifications is absolute. Within this framework, we build a processing system that is dynamic based on the knowledge available, aware of current events that are modifying the knowledge base with some finite probability that its result is accurate. In a sense the system is limited by its capacity to store/retrieve information (knowledge), its ability to (intelligently) process information, and its ability to compute the confidence level with which it has generated the previous step(s). We fall back on database facilities for storing/retrieving information, on AI techniques for processing and on basic probability (fuzzy set) theory to numerically compute or at least estimate the accuracy of its discrete steps. Whereas any computer system with a complex software structure can serve as a knowledge machine, we present an architecture which stores/retrieves information; processes, learns, and modifies the information; and finally computes or estimates the confidence level in each step or procedure. These are the macro instructions to the rather elaborate hardware. It processes in two dimensions: the knowledge domain (i.e. generates conclusions) and the numeric domain (i.e. generates confidence level), confirming the earlier stated notion that the conclusion reached so far is not undeniable.","PeriodicalId":217137,"journal":{"name":"3rd International Workshop on Community Networking 1996. Proceedings","volume":"237 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116204888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The LAMBDA project: using advanced telematics to deliver services and information to rural areas","authors":"J. Brogden","doi":"10.1109/CN.1996.534657","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CN.1996.534657","url":null,"abstract":"Summary form only given, as follows. The LAMBDA project was a two year European funded project to bring practical services and information to remote rural areas. It has utilised multimedia, interactive public access terminal units linked by ISDN to service provider sites. The project has involved the local communities at all stages and has shown how a combination of social science and technology research can be combined to develop a project using advanced telematics with, in the main, non-technical users. In the Highlands of Scotland a close collaboration with the local community has been set up to develop an interactive, multimedia unit that is accessible and easy to use by all the local people. The unit delivers services, not just information, to the remote areas in the Highlands. A comprehensive evaluation of the first 6 months of the running of 7 community units and 9 service provider units has been completed. The units deliver information on the local council, give access to a videophone to government officers, enable people to order their library books, browse the library catalogue by looking at the images of the front covers, listen to clips of CDs and see clips of videos. They can also access welfare benefits databases to work out their entitlements and access an advisor via the video phone, access distance learning packages alongside videophone access to tutors, and browse images of artefacts from distant museums.","PeriodicalId":217137,"journal":{"name":"3rd International Workshop on Community Networking 1996. Proceedings","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133505913","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Plugged In's epa.net project: low-income community networking","authors":"N. Arnett","doi":"10.1109/CN.1996.534653","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CN.1996.534653","url":null,"abstract":"epa.net is a project of Plugged In, a non-profit computer center in a low-income community near Silicon Valley. The project is designed to bring computer and Internet infrastructure to the community through partnerships that bring access to equipment, communications combination of technical, management skills. Partnerships include Silicon Valley companies and community organizations.","PeriodicalId":217137,"journal":{"name":"3rd International Workshop on Community Networking 1996. Proceedings","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129606418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"RCM: An open architecture to build a community","authors":"G. Casapulla, A. Chizzoni, F. De Cindio","doi":"10.1109/CN.1996.534654","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CN.1996.534654","url":null,"abstract":"Milan Civic Network (RCM) is a community network developed with owned, windows based, software that supports the construction of highly interactive environments. It introduces basic multimedia functionalities according to the real hardware and software capability of current Italian personal computers users. Its open architecture let its members communicate with many different protocols, including the World Wide Web. These choices, that have made RCM the biggest Italian community network with more than 3500 active users in a year and a half, have been adopted also by other initiatives in Italy, some of them already operational.","PeriodicalId":217137,"journal":{"name":"3rd International Workshop on Community Networking 1996. Proceedings","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116911636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}